Description:
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Maintain the technical solutions for applications deployment and maintenance
Maintain and even improve the means so that products are correctly and continuously integrated and deployed in quality assurance and production environments, respecting established rules.
Support software teams on behavior testing, automated testing, and debugging of applications across various environments.
Support service team with tools and custom scripts for applications maintenance, in a simple and efficient manner.
• Secure the product operability
Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions.
Evaluate the system continuously and objectively so that the product with underlying architecture is state of the art.
Ensures that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
• Ensure the software team is informed and aware of operational constraints.
Skills & Qualifications:
• System skillset:
System Administration basics (services, ssh, OS packages management, etc)
• DevOps tooling advanced skillset:
Extensive working experience (at least 3 years) with Containerization: Docker and Kubernetes
Use of ArgoCD and Helm
Developing and maintaining Ansible Playbooks
Scripting experience in Shell, Bash, CMD and Powershell
Using Jira and Gitlab
• Infrastructure as code skillset:
Automated configuration using Ansible
• Network basics:
Good working experience with NGINX and HAproxy deployment and configuration
Familiar with commonly used network commands (e.g. curl, telnet, netstat)
LAN architecture (CIDR, vLAN, routing, NAT)
DNS and SSL (internal, external)
Understand Network ACLs and request firewall access as required
• Security:
Secrets management using various vaults (Kubernetes secrets, Hashicorp Vault, etc)
TLS implementation with SSL in and out of Kubernetes
SSH administration
Good-to-have Skills:
• System Administration advanced skillset (IPtables, systemd modifications, advanced kernel tuning, etc)
• Experience with different options of hypervisors (VMware, HyperV)
• Experience with Kubernetes Service Mesh (linkerd, istio)
• Build for the Run: o Deploy and administrate monitoring and alerting tooling (grafana, prometheus)
Craft monitoring and alerting thresholds
Deploy and administrate a log concentration tool (ELK and Filebeat)
Kafka cluster configuration
Create custom searches and dashboards on Kibana
• Other useful skills:
General technical architecture methodology understanding (RPO, RTO, SLA, flow matrix, ...)
SQL and NoSQL Database administration basics (ex : Database dump, clustering models, deployment architecture)
Agile methodology and process understanding and experience
Development skill with one of the following language: Java, .Net
Behaviour:
• Produces Ingenious, astute design, with an open mind
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Able to fluently communicate with local and oversea project teams, and external stakeholders.
• Collaborative team players preferred
